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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
By Bahá'u'lláh · 1891 · Bahá'í Publishing Trust
Bahá'u'lláh's ministry (1853–1892) · public domain
Last major Tablet revealed by Bahá'u'lláh, summarizing many of His teachings.
About Bahá'u'lláh
Founder of the Bahá'í Faith. Imprisoned and exiled successively from Persia to Baghdád, Constantinople, Adrianople, and finally 'Akká, where He revealed the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and the bulk of His Writings.
1817–1892 · Founder
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“By God, the True One! I am Trustworthiness and the revelation thereof, and”
“the beauty thereof. I will recompense whosoever will cleave unto Me, and”
“recognize My rank and station, and hold fast unto My hem. I am the most”
“great ornament of the people of Bahá, and the vesture of glory unto all who”
“are in the kingdom of creation. I am the supreme instrument for the”
In the *Epistle to the Son of the Wolf*, Bahá'u'lláh recounts a vision in which Trustworthiness itself, standing on a pillar of light, declares that it is the most great ornament of the people of Bahá and the supreme instrument for the prosperity of the world.
In the *Epistle to the Son of the Wolf*, Bahá'u'lláh briefly recalls the conditions of His four-month imprisonment in the Síyáh-Chál of Tihrán in 1852 — the underground dungeon in which the first intimations of His Revelation came to Him.
The Persian Ambassador's intrigues helped bring about Bahá'u'lláh's banishment from Constantinople. Nearly thirty years later, in the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Bahá'u'lláh testified to the ambassador's honesty in his service and said he deserved commendation.
In the last year of His life, Bahá'u'lláh addressed His last outstanding Tablet to a cleric of Iṣfahán whose father had condemned two beloved believers. He called him to repent and quoted many passages from His own earlier Writings.
In the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Bahá'u'lláh recalls the four months He spent chained in the underground dungeon of Ṭihrán in 1852, and the first stirrings there of His Revelation.
In His last major Tablet, Bahá'u'lláh wrote to Shaykh Muḥammad-Taqí, a cleric of Iṣfahán who had persecuted the believers. He counselled him, gave him a prayer of repentance to recite, and offered him the same advice He had given His own son.
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